Marko Heijnen

WordCamp NL

marko — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 14:20:03 +0000

After a brilliant start of the year with WordCamp Oslo I now will give a presentation at WordCamp NL. At WordCamp Oslo I explained ways to communicate with WordPress from a mobile app. I also showed how you can use WordPress multisite installation in a really cool way where a new site in WordPress means a new mobile app. Part of the presentation can be found at slideshare.

At WordCamp NL I will show some really cool code examples what you can do with WordPress. It’s not about the need use them but a showcase what you can do with WordPress. A lot of time people search for plugins to get the task done. I hope with this presentation people going to try to do a little more themselves.

WordCamp’s in Europe

marko — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:20:01 +0000

I so love WordCamp’s in general. The sprite is great and you always meet great people. In some way I hate that I don’t live in the states. They got so many WordCamp’s and all of them are in English.

And that is precise what I hate about the WordCamps in Europe. Some of them do got English speakers but a lot of them still are country orientated. So if I want to go for example to a Spanish WordCamp I need to know Spanish. I do know some words but I am sure they lost me after two sentences.

In my opinion they should be more international orientated so more people can visit them. Most of the time the got multiple tracks, so if one of them is in english than you have it both ways. At least WordCamp.org should note which language will be spoken.

WordCamp Europe

Couple of days ago I talked with someone and we talked about this. At one point I was joking about a WordCamp Europe. A WordCamp that would go from country to country with only English talks. And has the same level like WordCamp San Francisco. Something like that is missing here completely.

I was this year in San Francisco and I was not the only crazy person who traveled from Europe to visit the WordCamp. Not only for WordCamp of course. Most likely also to make a little holiday of it and have a great time.

WordCamp isn’t only about WordPress

Maybe this is my opinion but I see WordCamps to social interact with other people. Of course talk about WordPress a lot but also about other things. I love to visit WordCamps in every country. And also to learn something about the city and culture of that region/country. That is one of the reasons I would love that there would be a WordCamp Europe and one that isn’t always in the same city/country.

Conclusion

Maybe this is just my vision of WordCamps in Europe. I would love to hear some feedback about if you would like to see a WordCamp Europe. And how you look to it.

Complete fresh webpage.

marko — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 01:24:01 +0000

The whole year I had some great plans with my website and it never came of it. At WordCamp San Francisco I was at the session of Jeff Veen. And he said something like: When you are not embarrassed with your product, you are to late. So here is my website.

There is still a lot of tweaking and plugin development to do. I do hope now I put my first version online the rest will follow soon.

Blogging

Till now I really didn’t blog at all. I always tried but never succeed in it. At WordCamp San Francisco I did blog for WPspecialist (Dutch). Didn’t blog as much as I wanted but with four articles it is a nice start. In the next couple of months I will start posting some articles about WordPress, mobile development and a combination of those two. Probably I also going to dive into responsive webdesign.